If you’ve built the LEGO Brick Calendar 853195, you might have discovered that it’s a real pain to rearrange it each month. So I’ve created my own version, using the parts from that set plus others from my collection, to create a better version.
A better version of the LEGO Calendar. It's a lot easier to swap the numbers around for a new month, plus I built numbers for the year.
For comparison, here’s the original LEGO set. You have to completely take it apart and rebuild it each month, and I don’t really like all the colors so I simplified the color scheme as well.
My version also includes the digits of the year built mosaic-style. The “20” on the left side are permanently there, under the theory that in the unlikely event this is still built in the year 2100 it won’t be too much of a hassle to rebuild the 0 into a 1.
The digits on the right side are modular, meant to be easily swapped around. I built 5 number blocks, with each side having an odd or even number (1 & 2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6, 7 & 8, 9 & 0), plus another 1 & 2 for the tens place (in the hear 2033 I’ll have to build another 3 & 4 block, but that can wait…)
I put tiles and a jumper tile on top of each of the 2×10 bricks with the months printed on them so that they can be stacked up behind the calendar for storage. This photo shows the stored unused parts.
Great job Bill! Your version is better! Greetings, Storage Edmonton Ltd.